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Why's Mayo headed to USC?

By Bomani Jones
Special to Page 2

Monday, July 10, 2006

The top recruit in the class of 2007 is headed to USC. To play basketball. Really. It's been a few days since reports surfaced that O.J. Mayo, the 6-foot-4 point guard prodigy from West Virginia via Cincinnati, plans to take his talents to South Los Angeles. Perhaps the kid loves a challenge and is itching for the chance to show that he is both the most talented and unconventionally named O.J. in Trojan history. (Orenthal James vs. Ovinton J'Anthony? You make the call.) Maybe he's just ready ...

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